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me on fbn. glen? me on fbn. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> glenn: it's 5:00 in the eastern so good evening. it's going to be a close race in massachusetts. who is poised to win it? progressives. we'll tell you about that. they're not being shy about stealing the election. i have unbelievable audio i'll play for you in your living room but it should be played in a courtroom. plus, the audio of danny glover who said something dumber than pat robertson did in haiti and nobody is covering this. speaking of dumb, there is a pattern i've noticed, progressive attacks on conservatives over the years. apparently we're a bunch of dumb, dumb, dummies. now 58% say they want smaller government providing fewer services according to the "washington post" abc news poll. that means us stupids have the intellectuals surrounded. c'mon, idiots.
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we have work to do. >> glenn: hello. all eyes are on massachusetts for tomorrow. who is going to fill ted kennedy's seat? the suspense is killing me. everyone in the media seems shocked that the republican is on the verge of winning in massachusetts. weird. a republican from massachusetts doesn't really exactly roll off the tongue. you know what i'm saying? not only are they shocked but they are horrified what it might mean. a republican winning there? >> we want to talk about a crisis potentially looming at home. massachusetts, the president is making a last minute trip to boston. tomorrow to campaign for democrat martha coakley. >> has democratic leaning massachusetts lost its mind?
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>> a new poll is terrible news for democrats. 60th vote in the senate may be healthcare in the balance. i'm interested now. deputy political director mark murray joins us now. this is bad. >> glenn: ohh, this is bad! what did they say earlier? another crisis. talking about haiti and another crisis is looming over here. the republicans win? that's a crisis. wow! have they lost their minds? the media may be surprised but i'm not. the days where they vote for democrats or republicans -- if it's an "r" or "d" i'll just pull it. we are seeing an end of those days. for so long we bought in the "r"s and "d"s. we're at a one-party system at this point. we need to identify ourselves as one of the other, though it didn't really make a difference. and that label was more important than the real label we should have been wearing, american.
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progressives put the agenda in hyper drive. it's chris call clear that the final -- crystal clear that the final goal is anything but american. >> we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the united states of america. >> yes, indeed. fundamentally transforming america. both republicans and democratic voters heard it now and snapped out of their slumber. if there is one thing that all americans from all political persuasions we can unite on is i don't really want to live in france. i think even michael moore agrees with that one. although, michael moore i think just doesn't want to us be like france because he thinks cuba would be better. but we all don't want to be like france. it's an insult for the people of massachusetts to react with shock because they put thought in their vote. maybe, maybe the reason why they are voting the way they are or seeming to be
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considering it is because they discovering who the candidates really are. last week when a journalist was pushed to the ground trying to ask her a question, whether or not it was on purpose, who knows. but coakley's response was telling. she claimed, "i'm not sure what happened. i know something occurred but i'm not privy to all of the facts." that is weird. bullying the press, we got that one done. she wasn't sure. she knew enough fax to say the republican stockers caused it. that's out of someone else's play book. oh, yeah, i don't have all of the facts but the police acted stupidly. hey! it worked the last time in massachusetts. unfortunately for co coakley, one of the pesky photographers caught this photo. look, a guy laying on the ground. one of the operatives. she was, she was close enough to figure out what happened
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there. now the next is religious bigotry. do we have that with coakley? sure. catholics play attention to this one. >> you can have religious freedom, but you probably shouldn't work in the emergency room. oh. well, thank you very much. i appreciate that. hey catholics, as soon as we get all of the universal healthcare. if you have to provide abortions, you're a nurse and you don't want to do that, find another job. practice religious freedom elsewhere. coakley is a politician that made a financial discrepancy on some of her paperwork. they're not used to doing numbers and stuff. on the financial disclosures for the senate run, she claimed to have no personal assets. wow! turns out she was only off by about $200,000. woopsy. then, of course, there was the legal incompetence which
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is tricksy for her, seeing what she does is the attorney general, you know, that job. her involve in the the fells acre day care center preschool trial is a case where three day care workers were convicted on weak accusations of child abuse. everybody when the judges overturned the conviction and the governor's board of pardons and paroles unanimously voted to commute emerald, coakley stuck by her story, despite the lack of evidence. trying to look tough on crime. yeah, tough on crime. if you are an attorney general and you're tough on crime, you know who would support you? the police. don't you think? here she is the attorney general. the head law enforcement figure in the state. not only does she fail to get the support of the state police association of massachusetts and several police keyword unions, she fails to get the support of the cambridge police patrol
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union, and that's weird because maybe they recognize the same language. it dent know who is at fault here. i don't have the facts but i know the police acted stupidly. the cambridge police union, her husband is retired cambridge police officer. no word whether her husband is going to vote for her tomorrow or not. it's amazing. the race is even close considering how bad of a candidate she appears to be. the ppp, public policy polling has her trailing scott brown now by 51 to 46. that's close. sufficient fox has it 50 to 46. all within the margin of error. that's bad news. with progressives, their dream of mandated healthcare possibly online, oh, you can imagine how ugly this thing will get if oh god help us all, if it's too close to call. you see they have friends in high places. okay, they have friends in low places, but they have enough, you just wait! i don't want to esee some idiot looking at a hanging
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chad. do you remember this guy? trying to figure out the intent of the voter. i remember this very vividly. this is the first time if you are like me you realized wow! wait a minute! our voting system has serious problems? you didn't even know until florida. i lived in tampa florida in the recount in 2000. i was in favor of recounting the whole state. if you are going to recount it, do the whole state. democrats thought by cherry picking certain areas and manipulating the system they'd have a better chance of winning. that backfired and by all accounts if the democrats would have recounted the entire state, gore would have pulled it out. but the loss was their fault. they were so incompetent they didn't even know how to cheat. don't worry, they've gotten good at it now. if you even mention the 2000 election from someone on the left they i'll say george bush stole the election. or try this one: do you know who this woman is?
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do you h remember this face? likely you do. the republican secretary of state kathryn harris. she committed a crime against american democracy. on snl and jon stewart parodied harris. watch this. >> kathryn harris made it official signing the certification papers and she passed the papers on to a second commissioner, finally they got the ultimate seal of approval signature from lobster boy. >> she was on snl and they ridiculed her. she had the make-up and lipstick on. do you recognize this face? ever seen this man before? i don't think you have. most people couldn't recognize him because the democrats don't consider it a crime against democracy when they win. all franklin minnesota senate race. this is mark richie. the kathryn harris. he was an acorn supported guy. hand picked by the george
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sorros funded s.o.s. project. s.o.s. is designed specifically to have control of the power in close elections. less learned apparently -- lesson learned apparently. if it's close in massachusetts, this is the person we're all going to see. william francis gal vin. he said if scott brown wins, well, it will take a while to certify brown. it's weird. in 2007 as the boston harold points out, representative ni niki tsongsas was sworn in the u.s. house of representatives in massachusetts on october 18, 2007. that was two days after winning a special election. i don't believe as american regular democrats stealen election. i don't believe the republicans steal an election. people who only care about the party and power, people like progressives do.
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in fact, progressives, it's practically a bylaw in any of the manifestos. you want some examples? how about just before we went on break in the weekend. the illustrious ed schultz on his radio program. >> i tell you what, if i lived in massachusetts i'd try to vote ten times. i don't know if they'd let me but i'd try to. >> glenn: of course he would! i mean, why not? his partner in crime also longed for some good old fashioned cheating. watch this. >> you know in the old days, maybe i shouldn't harkening back to the old days, that the democrats faced this kind of a disaster in the works you'd go back to your ones. the people you were sure were going to vote democrat and make sure they got to the polling place, get them lunch, get them a car. you make sure they got there. in some case you'd be buying people to get -- not initially buying them but get them the block secretary and block captains to give them the money.
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legitimate but a little old school. but i hear talking to somebody today, there aren't people up there in massachusetts like that. there aren't the automatic democrat votes out there, the ones anymore. >> glenn: oh, the horror! i mean, you can't buy votes in massachusetts anymore? what is next? acorn won't allow underaged prostitution? i mean what is happening to us, america? it doesn't bother these people because they're sold it's okay by people like saul alinsky. it is imperative you understand the history of the progressive movement. alinsky slins a hero to progressives and extreme left. hero is not too strong of a word. here is how i know that. >> reach back to one of the heroes from the past from the '60s, saul alinsky. >> glenn: okay. hero. saul alinsky. this guy. this is the guy who teaches the progressive movement that the ends justify the means. you do whatever it takes, no
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matter what. there are no ethics. it's just the end. here is the important thing to understand. it's not just about the elections. it's about all of it. and you're seeing it right now. you steal $2.3 million from banks like the guy who wrote the blueprint for the progressive utopia that they're using now at the white house, robert creamer. you steal $2.3 million while you spread the wealth around to the poor, it's okay to commit fraud. healthcare, behind closed doors. shady deals bribing politicians and bankrupting america. it doesn't matter. it's for the common good. just get it done. you remember last week, remember the whale protesters? okay. the guys attacked ram and sunk a japanese whaling ship. if i may have an add moment here, your honor, i mean,
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whales are great and everything, but when you risk life and limb to stop somebody from catching a whale, i mean whoeshgs daddy didn't love them? maybe it's just me. the boats sank. the japanese ship sunk this boat over here and this is fantastic. this boat is from paul watson's organization. you might ask who is paul watson? a great guy! a progressive. yeah. have you seen the show "whale wars?" it's a reality show. he routinely resorts to physical violence against humans to save animals. he reportedly said and i quote, "if you don't know an answer, a fact that is statistic, then make it up on the spot." and there is nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win.
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then you write the history. got it? attacking a civilian boat. ramming a bill through congress. voting ten times in massachusetts. being a terrorist. blow yourself up. don't worry. just win. then they can spin it in the history books. what was it michig michelle oba said? we know we are going to have to rewrite our history. they are. they'll save the whales. they achieved healthcare for all. they fundamentally transformed america. as we learned in time magazine, there was no outcry. remember in "time" magazine, year in review, there weren't even pictures of the tea partigoers? how do you tell the story of america last year without those pictures? you just win and then no one is around to ask the questions. americans are starting to wake up to it. even the democrats. even the democrats in kennediville.
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they know something isn't right. that something is the uber left. the van jones communist loving radicals, the mao zedong supporters in white house. ron blooms of the world, our industrial czar. excuse me. he says he agrees with mao that power comes from the barrel of the gun. america, do you believe that? i don't believe the majority of americans think like these people do. but they don't care. why? if you don't believe these radicals, these revolutionaries, these people who admire castro and marx, if you don't think they think they are superior to you, that they will run you over if you get in the way of their doing good for the greater good, then you don't understand history.
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one thing i want to bring to the table this year on television is this one word. "remember." "remember." remember who you are. remember where we came from. remember the truth. but it's hard to remember the truth, when the progressives are in charge of the textbooks. i've never been told -- i've done television now for four years and we have done some pretty shocking things on television but i have never been told i have to prepare an audience for what they're about to see. i've been told that on friday, i must starting today, prepare you for what you're about to see. i want you to gather on friday your family around the television. because on friday, if you don't understand the progressive movement, and where with it has led, if you don't understand marx and mao and che and stalstalin, on fridy by 6:00 p.m. eastern, you will.
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>> it wasn't a mistake. it was intentional policy to exterminate people. >> he said his dream was to become a killing machine. >> great teachers and leaders, chairman mao. >> plan and premeditated mass murder. >> nobody was interested in knowing about it. >> if you are not producing as much as you consume, or more, your life does not benefit us and it can't be -- [ inaudible ]
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>> glenn: in haiti, thousands of people are dead. a country already ravaged by poverty and things have gotten worse. i'm afraid that as people grow more desperate they will turn on each other. families have been torn apart, children, orphans, survivors scrambling to find water, shelter, medical aid and any help. a starving man will do whatever it takes to feed his family. i hope your church, like mine did, they talked about the
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aid they were lending and asked to us reach in our pockets. i hope you did. it's why it's imperative that the united states military is on the ground. things could get dicey quickly. one thing we're good to provide in situations like this is military support. security. one inspiring thing that comes from a tragedy like this is people coming together to help those in need. thousands of american troops and volunteers from around the world have been looking day and night to provide security, food, water and medical aid. the major problems is getting supplies to the people. it always is. there has been a bottleneck at the airport. the troops are doing everything they can to get the planes on the ground and the supplies to the people who need it. every single second count. rescuers are piling, piling supplies up and people from the rubble a week after the earthquake. it hear there is a bottleneck. this made my head explode when i heard the report over the weekend that members of
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the u.s. military who are in charge of the airport, are fust rated when the planes above haiti with supplies couldn't land because the politicians and diplomats were landing. the airports are so crowded they're parking the blanes on the grass to make room. any politician who thinks they need to get their photo taken in haiti, here is an idea. send supplies, rescue workers and maybe a personal check. leave your fat butt at home, chuck. what they need is supplies. and medical. not politicians. as the people in haiti grow more hungry, thirsty and exhausted, it's not unheard of to believe they would grow desperate. that can lead to real violence. looting and killing always seems to follow natural disasters. that's why the military needs to be there. but some people, i believe, want that to actually happen. the president of venezuela, hugo chavechavez.
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chavez took opportunity to score political points. the united states sent aid and troops but on sunday, chavez said this, "i read that 3,000 soldiers were arriving, marines, armed as if they were going to war. there is no shortage of guns there. >> glenn: yes, we have always wanted the haiti island. haven't we always wanted that? sorry, president chavez. it will be more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors and marines if you count the troops on the ground and ships on shore, it will be closer to 10,000. that includes the u.s. navy ships and coast guard cutters. members of the airborne division to help the survivors and the navy comfort, the largest medical ship will be there this week as carrier vinson. it carries equipment capable of purifying large amounts of
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water. has extensive medical facility. ovk, if we would ha of course, if we would have sent no troops, chafz would have mocked that as well. you can never please the social dictator of the world or the social dictators friends. friends of the dictator like this one. danny glover there. has been in shortage of stupid things said about the tragedy but listen to this from glover. >> i think there are other countries of the region, venezuela brash, zil, cuba and oth others --
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>> glenn: so now it's get something hot it's cold and we're having earthquakes because of your suv. failure at copenhagen, caused the earthquake. global warming caused the earthquake. the earth is angry. this is karma. then we have this last week from pat robertson. >> they got together and swore a pack to the devil. they said we'll serve you if you get us free from the prince. true story. the devil said okay, it's a deal. they kicked the french -- the haitian revolted an got themselves free. but ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the
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other. >> glenn: a deal with the devil. like i said, no shortage of stupid when it comes to. stays on haiti. what was the difference between the statements? pat robertson, media all over that. danny glover says they went against the planet and they were punished. pat robertson ridiculed by the press for days. danny glover, nothing. no outcry from the progressives, because the progressives i think believe that bull. they have replaced god with the earth. so his silly comments are okay, because the earth god is angry. they're not rushing to support glover but he's not being attacked either i'm willing to bet some progressives bought in glover's twisted logic. global warming led to the earthquake. remember, these are the guys that brought you this -- i pledge allegiance to the earth. and all the life which it
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supports. one planet in our care, irreplaceable with sustenance and respect for all. god is the planet. we talk about this over and over again. when it comes to the tragedy in haiti, i will tell you something you don't hear often on television, something the progressives want to get rid of. first, if you send the money to your charity of your choosing, do that. if you can't, do this -- pray. get on your knees and pray. turn to god and pray for the people of haiti, the rescuers and pray for our country that our leaders do the right thing because it's the right thing. go back to sleep america.
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the oil crisis is over. i don't think so. our economy is bleeding billions for foreign oil... importing nearly 70% - much of it from countries that don't like us. that's billions we should use to create american jobs. we have plenty of american natural gas, to power our trucks and bus fleets. it's cheaper, cleaner, abundant, and it's ours. we've had our wake up call. it's time to act.
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i'm jamie colby. u.s. air force began the first of several suspected air drops over haiti today. the army's 82nd airborne has just choppered in thousands of ready-to-eat meals with thousands of quarts of water. today, president obama toured the red cross disaster operation center in washington to thank the aid workers there. he sent his first ever tweet from a computer. >> how about that? this is the first time i've seen it. >> someone else texted the message but the president posted it online. a new poll shows martha coakley of massachusetts in a
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free-fall one day before voters head to the polls. glenn beck returns in a moment but first a preview of "special report." >> hi, jamie. coming up, we have analysis of the new polls today out of the massachusetts senate race and what does it mean for the healthcare reform legislation? brit hume is here. join me at the top of the hour. >> tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of this ridiculous show at 5:00. when we started -- when we started the show a year ago, on our first show i did a puzzle. it was really -- the idea is that the news is like a puz that fits together to form a bigger picture but everybody only talks about the one piece. everything is related. let me bring you back to the story in massachusetts about scott brown's race against martha coakley. then the democratic machine.
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here is what was said by brian mcgrelry in the globe over the weekend. scott brown may not share the political value of most of the senate and lack experience for u.s. senate, but let's be honest. his nights probably aren't tie up with the mensa meetings. he's just really stupid. >> everybody on right is really dumb. >> there is something we theed to pay attention to with glenn beck. the truth of the matter is there a good reason why we have exemption to free speech protected by the first amendment. >> i'm just a hockey mom. and using what she learned at the hockey rink.
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it's absurd. >> i didn't see you there. you caught me mending my fences one of the many things i do on the ranch. it want to bring to light a terrible things that liberals are trying to do to you. they're trying to encourage people to vote. >> sereverybody is stupid, right? he's not stupid. he's a genius. brilliant. the best, smartest president we've ever had. sarah palin, dumb as a box of rocks. george bush, was he stupid! bill clinton, rode scholar, intellectual, in fact. george h.w. bush, dumb, dumb, dummy. dan quayle, oh! he is an imbecile. he longs to be stupid. ronald reagan was practically going potty in his pants he was so incompetent. jimmy carter, no he was
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brilliant! gerald ford, a complete moron. he couldn't stand on his two feet. al gore, nothing like dan quayle. brilliant. a cross section of concerned americans who attended tea parties, really stupid. >> the tea parties number one are not well educated. >> glenn: notice any pattern? if you are on the left, you're a seenous. if y -- you're a genius. on the right you're dumb as a box of rocks. martha coakley isn't called stupid. scott brown is. even though she suggested this -- >> the goal, the mission in afghanistan was to go in because we believe the
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taliban was giving harbor to terrorists. we supported that. i supported the goal. they're gone not there anymore. >> no more terrorists. she misspelled her own state in the campaign ad. remember when i misspelled what was it? olegarcky because i left the "c" off. it never heard the end of that. here, no. she referred to red sox legend curt schilling as an e yankee fan. >> if it weren't close, rudy giuliani wouldn't come in either. besides, he's a yankee fan, i want people to know. >> but now scott brown has curt schilling, okay? >> another yankee fan. >> curt schilling a yankee fan? >> i'm wrong -- >> the red sox great pitcher. >> he's not there anymore. >> she's razor sharp.
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smart as a whip! patrick kennedy couldn't get her name right over the weekend. "some works needs to be done and this process in the process of doing it and we need to get marcia coakley to help him do that." the only problem here is her name is martha. but again, don't confuse that with stupid. even though he did it three times. marcia, marcia, mmamarcia. thank you, jan brady. the leftist have been playing elitist for a long time but the americans are starting to figure it out. we're on to it. they cheat and only the ends justify the means and we see how they play the game. it's played out over and over again. harry reid, harry reid. he's brilliant! he can say something just ridiculous. this isn't harry reid. this is the guy who used to wear the pointy hats. he's brilliant. he's not a racist. but this guy, no.
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no. he is evil. dumb. he's a racist. yeah! they know harry's heart. obama said it himself. harry is on the right side of history. >> this is a good man who has always been on the right side of history. for him to have used some inartful language, in trying to praise me and for people to make hey out of it makes no sense. >> if he is on your side he can't be wrong to. if they're on the right can't be right. trent lott said his friend strom thurmond on his 100th birthday, "you would have made a racist president." wow! what a racist comment that was. but saying it about strom thurmond will get you kicked out of leadership. voting for a guy who wore the pointy hood, no, that's not racist. no, no. on the right side of history. we have never listened to the
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intellectuals when it came to politics. the professors in our society. we never listen to them until the progressives came along. we figure it was better to put someone in office who had done something than just the theorized about this. if you have something comply kated going on in your brain and wants brain surgeons, do you want someone theorizing about brain surgery or are you going to hire someone who has performed brain surgery? that yeah, that's what i thought. thomas soul has been fighting this for a long time. he issee debating piv -- here he is debating frances fox piven of cloward-piven fame. >> thwhatever polls taken of black opinion on whether should people be paid equally or this or that, black people never taken the position you describe. it's not a question of what
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black people chose, it's what you put in the mouth of black people to project. it's not what any black people ever said anywhere that you can put your finger on. >> you choose to put in the mouth of the pollsters as far as i can see. >> i put it in the mouth of the pollsters? like most people, i have never seen a pollster. >> listen to the white intellectual. thomas soul has a new book out, i started to read hit the weekend that exposes the game. i want you to hear it from him. next.
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>> glenn: the game now played out across the country and massachusetts has been played out for a long time. economist thomas soul is here, where he has a new book and exposes why intellectuals do and why and the impact on the society. i start aed reading hit the weekend. it's a book that the average person would make their head hurt, but in a good way. the way you boil it down -- i'm fascinated if i can connect with you here a little bit on i haven't seen anything in american history like what is being played out right now unless i go back to the early 20th century with woodrow wilson and early progressive movement with teddy roosevelt, prohibition, the fed, income tax and the power grab that happen happened around 1915. true or false?
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>> true. i often thought the current president is woodrow wilson reincarnated. people admire him for the same reason that they admire woodrow wilson. he sounded things that sounded so wonderful, but if you challenge them name one concrete thing that became better as a result of what woodrow wilson did, they can't tell you. >> glenn: wilson was amazing -- he was a racist. he was the first to -- correct me if i'm wrong -- he was the first tweed suit guy we ever elected. we used to go to the producers and doers for advice and he changed that. then he went to professors and tweed suits for advice, true or false? >> it's true, that the people we admire in the first half of the 20th century were the
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people who made the lives better. thomas edison, henry ford, people like that. the latter half of the 20th century we went to the people who talked good. it never mattered what the consequences of what they said were. >> glenn: right. why does this matter? why is it important for people to understand? what did the change bring to us? >> look at what the consequences of woodrow wilson were, as he talked about making the world safe for democracy and point of fact, totalitarianism came as a result of world war i and our involvement in it. he talked about democracy in the world but he restricted free speech in the united states that some of the landmark supreme court decisions on free speech come from the woodrow wilson administration. you can go on and on with the things that he did that were disastrous. we're still cleaning up in the middle east from
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self-determination of people. they created unstable and dangerous states in the middle east as well as elsewhere. >> glenn: hillary clinton said she now likens herself to early american woodrow wilson era, yet they won't take responsibility for the ideas of they loved dictators. correct me if i'm wrong. progressives loves dictators. they were prohibitionist and they were for the progressive income tax. most importantly, they were also for eugenics, which led to the holocaust. >> absolutely.
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what they're for generally is for people living their lives which we see in the healthcare bill -- >> glenn: hang on. i'll come back in the next break. if you deny those things as a progressive, what does it mean for today? we'll be back in just a second. 
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>> glenn: back with thomas sowell. you said the progress is want to control every aspect of your life but inteffect walls, the prointesive movement think they're superior and smarter and everyone else is too dumb. if they deny their history in eugenics, then people won't see what always comes at the end of a big progressive era. and that is, imprisonment or bloodshed, because people are just too stupid. and it's for the common good so we have to get rid of them. am i wrong? >> certainly the progressives were this the vanguard of the eugenics movement, a fact they don't want to admit. the same attitude toward the public is still around today. the idea that we're going to pass this massive healthcare bill without an utter disregard of whether the people even find out what it's all about until it's too late is typical of the attitude.
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they know what is best and the fact we don't like it is too bad. >> glenn: thank you, thomas. great book. we'll be back in a second. final thoughts. ç
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